Archive for 'Scammers, Griefers and Goons'
AvaStar Moves to Silence Critics: Issues Bans, Files Frivolous Abuse Reports, and Seeks Real Life Information on One Critic.
It’s times like this we wish we weren’t so “fairly unbalanced” all the time, because it is very important to us that you take this particular story seriously. We aren’t kidding, and we aren’t poking fun this time. The Herald has seen many hamfisted efforts to silence critics through the years, but this one is [...]
Full StoryCampBots Draining Casino Owners
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Rumours, Conjecture, Conspiracy Theories, and Inside Dope for Inside Dopes You’ve seen CopyBots. You’ve seen anti-CopyBot spamming defeaters. You’ve seen anti-anti-CopyBot defeaters. And now…you can see hordes of spam CampBots…like zombies…with Greek names! Surely there’s an ageplay/furry angle in here, too — we’re working on it! Word is starting to [...]
Full StoryIt could be worse. We could be in There.
I’ve posted this machinima rock video because (i) it involves griefers and (ii)…well if it involves griefers I don’t need another reason. Still I feel guilty because I’ve been to operas that were shorter, and the There avi’s are freakin’ hidgie, and well the video is… how can I put this…well…is it still wrong to [...]
Full StoryDid Official Live Helper Threaten Goons Over Furry Ageplay Report?
Goons Allegedly Threatened with DMCA Action for “Mockery” Don’t fuck with THIS Offical Live Helper. Image via Petey at Something Awful. A recent post on the Something Awful site has exposed the seldom talked about fault lines in the Second Life Community and raised a number of difficult issues. When an earlier post on Something [...]
Full StoryBABA SUCKS!
By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk This just in…seems that Baba really does suck. In a chat log published at SLuniverse.com, Baba Yamamoto tells his chums in the channel back on November 10 that the creation and deployment of CopyBot was deliberate, planned and malicious. The revelation confirmed what many including your faithful correspondent had [...]
Full StoryThe Day After: Bot Back-Lash and the People Speak
In Hooper at the Home of the Copy-Bot, Libsecondlife HQ. Seemingly anti-libsl protestor actually staging an arch, tongue-in-cheek pro-Baba action; Baba himself made the sign years ago. By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk The day after hundreds of people shut down their stores and stopped creating the fantasy world for the Lindens to sell their [...]
Full StorySL SHOCKER! – SLLA Hires Freelance Hit Squads
L$1000 bounty for hits on Electric Sheep, Millions of Us, Rivers Run Red – Aimee Weber hit jobs discounted to L$500 by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk SLLA now paying freelance shooters Addressing the dearth of entry level jobs in SL, the Second Life Liberation Army today placed a bounty on a number of high-profile [...]
Full StoryW-Hats Visit Reuters
Goons with talking hand puppets by Fiend Ludwig Plastic Duck returns – as a hand-puppet? Prokofy Neva is not making up his accounts of relentless harassment, as related in his comments to the Herald here and on his Second Thoughts blog. This morning I witnessed just such a confrontation on the Reuters sim – with [...]
Full StoryCrocodile Tears in Baku
Lindens claim 60 banned, yet W-Hat’s can only find 22 “missing”Linden leaves memento at goon gravesiteBanned avatars use IRC Link to chat in-world by Pixeleen Mistral, Herald National Affairs Desk The W-Hats remember their own I arrive in Baku sim and meander over to a small goon graveyard, when — right on cue — Mephiston [...]
Full StoryLinden Lab Plans Fixes After Grey Goo Fence Fails
Stronger defenses and object blacklists coming soon by Pixeleen Mistral, Herald National Affairs desk “Work I already did will be locked and loaded for emergency deploy,” said Linden Lab code cowboy Andrew Linden yesterday. I was talking to Andrew after a pair of grid attacks hit Second Life Monday, resulting in complete SL grid shutdowns [...]
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